TheCollector
Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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Brother of Jesus: Who Was Saint James?
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
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Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by...
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Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by German-American-French artist and founder of the Dada movement Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976). The book, which marks the beginning of his close friendship with French poet Paul...
TheCollector
6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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TheCollector
Who Is Sir David Attenborough?
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History Today Feed
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/29/2024 - 09:35
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
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Essential Greeks Course Begins Tomorrow!
TheCollector
What Are the Five French Republics?
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TheCollector
Is Happiness a Ghost? Seeking Fulfillment Through Philosophy
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TheCollector
Could the “Year Without a Summer” Happen Again? Here’s What Experts Say
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Dreams of Space -...
Building Reading Skills (1951)
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an...
a year ago
Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
TheCollector
Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
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History Today Feed
The Rebecca Riots: Why Did Wales Rise Up?
The Rebecca Riots: Why Did Wales Rise Up?
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Wed, 01/08/2025 - 09:37
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The Rebecca Riots: Why Did Wales Rise Up?
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/08/2025 - 09:37
Flashbak
A Kodachrome Trip To Lord Howe Island in 1961
in 1961, a groud of freinds took a flight to Lord Howe Island, an irregularly crescent-shaped...
5 days ago
in 1961, a groud of freinds took a flight to Lord Howe Island, an irregularly crescent-shaped volcanic remnant in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, part of the Australian state of New South Wales. Many decades later the album of kodachrome photos they took were...
TheCollector
French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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History Today Feed
China’s Communist Comic Books
China’s Communist Comic Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
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China’s Communist Comic Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
Eastern Enchantment: The Impact of the Arabian Nights on the West
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African History...
A complete history of Zeila (Zayla): ca. 800-1885 CE.
Journal of African cities: chapter 14
3 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 14
Dr Alun Withey
The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
11 months ago
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
TheCollector
What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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Flashbak
Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of...
8 months ago
Bifurcated Girls is a salacious illustrated story that first appeared in the June 1903 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. That’s not the glossy publication we know today, rather the a short-lived pulp magazine published by the Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City...
TheCollector
Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
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TheCollector
The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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TheCollector
10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World
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TheCollector
Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both?
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TheCollector
World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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TheCollector
7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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Wrong Side of...
Progressive realism and Perfidious Albion
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
2 months ago
Britain's foreign policy is woefully naive and self-defeating
TheCollector
Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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TheCollector
Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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Flashbak
The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
4 weeks ago
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, added image maps, animation controls, and wrote a guide....
History Today Feed
What is Modernity?
What is Modernity?
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Thu, 01/02/2025 - 09:09
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What is Modernity?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/02/2025 - 09:09
TheCollector
What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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TheCollector
How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
TheCollector
Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death
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6 Astounding Facts About the Inhotim Institute
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Trying to Understand...
Things Don't Always Get Better.
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
3 months ago
And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
Open Culture
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The...
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Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
Classical Wisdom
Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
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Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
TheCollector
What Were the Religious Beliefs of Hans Holbein the Younger?
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TheCollector
Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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What is Postmodern Art? The Genre Defined in 8 Iconic Works
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African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
a month ago
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
Open Culture
99-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Sings & Dances in a Touching New Coldplay Video, Directed by Spike Jonze
There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music...
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There’s one thing right with our world, and it’s Dick Van Dyke. Appearing in a new Coldplay music video, Mr. Van Dyke dances barefoot and sings knowingly a little off-key—before reflecting on a century of life on this planet. What is love? Is he afraid of dying? What does luck...
TheCollector
Who Won the Seven Days Battles?
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Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greek Astronomy
Ursa Major
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African History...
A history of the Lozi kingdom. ca. 1750-1911.
state and society in south-central Africa
10 months ago
state and society in south-central Africa
TheCollector
11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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TheCollector
The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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TheCollector
Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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History Today Feed
How the South Became Republican
How the South Became Republican
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
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How the South Became Republican
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:34
TheCollector
The Rise and Death of a ‘Mad Monk’: Who Was Grigori Rasputin?
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Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
a year ago
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
TheCollector
The Economic Effects of the Vietnam War
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TheCollector
Who Are Some Key Figures in Epistemology?
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TheCollector
Louis Wain’s Cat Paintings Head to Auction
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TheCollector
How Did Indulgences Inspire the Protestant Reformation?
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Classical Wisdom
Finding Odysseus’ Homeland
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
3 months ago
There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
TheCollector
Once Overlooked Painting From Botticelli’s Studio Rediscovered
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TheCollector
Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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TheCollector
What Is the (Delicious) History of Pizza?
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Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ Is Stolen, Then Recovered
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Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid
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10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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Dreams of Space -...
The Magic Motion Martian Book (1964)
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a...
a year ago
A pleasantly strange space book about Martians visiting the earth. The "magic motion" consisted of a little lenticular piece inside each page so if you moved your head the image would move. Not very exciting but it did make for a fun story.
Miller, Albert G. Designed by Paul...
Trying to Understand...
NATO's Phantom Armies.
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
8 months ago
And the ghost of Carl von Clausewitz.
TheCollector
FDR: How Roosevelt Won Unprecedented Four Presidential Elections
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African History...
A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885)
Journal of African cities chapter 5
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 5
TheCollector
Who Was Philip Melanchthon? (Life & Legacy)
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5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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African History...
The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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Pastel Purchased For $1,000 Identified as Lost Degas
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The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Tolkien and Plato
a year ago
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
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This Underrated, Historic Small Town Is a Great Alternative to Austin, Texas
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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History Today Feed
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
TheCollector
Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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TheCollector
What Are Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Top Achievements?
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Flashbak
Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was...
9 months ago
Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods. In the Middle Ages, Jesus...
TheCollector
Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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Trying to Understand...
Arming Ourselves Against The Future.
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
a year ago
With a few more books and a few old ideas.
TheCollector
What Happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
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Flashbak
Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a...
a year ago
When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
TheCollector
Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
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Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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10 Historic Small Towns in the Rockies You Should Visit
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What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible?
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Lou Salomé: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Über-Woman
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History Today Feed
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
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‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:32
TheCollector
Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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TheCollector
Two ‘Great Wave’ Prints Fetch Over $800,000 Each
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Open Culture
The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained
The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self...
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The video above from Sabins Civil Engineering promises to reveal “the MAGIC behind Da Vinci’s Self Supporting Bridge.” That sounds like a typical example of YouTube hyperbole, though on first glance, it isn’t at all obvious how the fragile-looking structure can stay up, much less...
TheCollector
Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture?
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Classical Wisdom
Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
7 months ago
New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
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Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in...
6 months ago
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
3 months ago
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
Patterns in Humanity
The Rise of the West
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people...
a year ago
I track the historical rise of West Europe by quantitatively analyzing the birth of notable people of science, and then I put it in context with other indicators of historical development. The data together show that West Europe had developmentally surpassed the rest of the world...
TheCollector
Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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Global Inequality...
The ideology of Donald J. Trump
Does Donald J.
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TheCollector
Claude Picasso Died at Age 76
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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Why There Is More Than One Reality: Introducing the Pluriverse
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TheCollector
6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
TheCollector
What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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TheCollector
Egyptian Cat Goddess: Who Is Bastet?
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Flashbak
Taking A Subway Ride Through New York City In 1981
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was...
11 months ago
1970s New York City was where Fernando played truant, chopper gangs hogged the sidewalks, sex was sold, women raged in raucous nightclubs, gay rights found its voice, Madonna joined her first band, BLADE used trains as his canvas and In 1981, 22-year-old Christopher Morris was...
TheCollector
Merging East and West: Who Was Alan Watts?
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TheCollector
What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
4 months ago
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
TheCollector
Who Are the Four Presidents Depicted on Mount Rushmore?
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TheCollector
Where Did the Huguenots Go? (6 Regions They Settled)
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
over a year ago
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
TheCollector
Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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Flashbak
The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
3 months ago
The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
TheCollector
6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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TheCollector
Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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a year ago
Hidden History
The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
a month ago
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had its origin some 400 years ago in early attempts by the Shoguns to ban gambling and European playing cards. History When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543, they established...
History Today Feed
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
8 months ago
Nottinghamshire’s Bitter 1593 Election
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/29/2024 - 11:05
TheCollector
Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Heads to Auction
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TheCollector
6 Facts About Ilya Repin You Should Know
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TheCollector
What Is the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence? From Descartes to Turing
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TheCollector
What Is an Existential Crisis?
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TheCollector
What Was the Hanseatic League?
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TheCollector
9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
5 months ago
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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TheCollector
Digitization Reveals Cathedral’s Hidden Medieval Wall Paintings
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African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
a year ago
government in central Africa.
Flashbak
A Tour of The Westwood Mall, Michigan, 1972 – 1984
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are...
2 months ago
We’re off to the Westwood Mall in Michigan in the 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the images here are from the store’s opening on August 3 1972. We see shopper browsing for music in Recordland beneath a poster for the singer Cyndi Lauper, buying into the ‘grapefruit diet’, getting...
African History...
a brief note on African travel literature in history
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
7 months ago
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
TheCollector
7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
over a year ago
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
TheCollector
5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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TheCollector
The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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TheCollector
Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck Discovered Near Canada
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TheCollector
Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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TheCollector
6 Outrageous Whaling Stories
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TheCollector
Russian Revolutionary: Who Was Leon Trotsky?
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TheCollector
How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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Flashbak
British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
8 months ago
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
Open Culture
Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Performed by a Choir of 4,000 Singers
Throughout the years, we’ve featured performances of Choir!Choir!Choir!–a large amateur choir from...
2 weeks ago
Throughout the years, we’ve featured performances of Choir!Choir!Choir!–a large amateur choir from Toronto that meets weekly and sings their hearts out. You’ve seen them sing Prince’s “When Doves Cry,” Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” (to honor Chris Cornell), and Patti Smith’s...
TheCollector
What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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Flashbak
Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
4 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
TheCollector
What Is Lucas Samaras Known For?
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TheCollector
Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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TheCollector
Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi: The Renaissance Competition
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African History...
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a revolution with a contested legacy.
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a revolution with a contested legacy.
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Memphis Citizens Call for End to New Art Museum
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The Vela Incident: Nuclear Bombs vs. Asteroid Collisions
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Diego Velazquez Royal Portrait Heads to Auction
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics?
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Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative and Positive Liberty
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Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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What Are the Pauline Epistles About?
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Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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What Is Panpsychism?
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Plato On Knowledge
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‘The Damascus Events’ and ‘Sea of Troubles’ review
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TheCollector
10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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Travels, murders, and......eels?!!
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The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
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Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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Open Culture
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There was a time when a company like Volkswagen could commission various luminaries to write letters to the future, then publish them in Time magazine as part of an ad campaign. In fact, that time wasn’t so very long ago: it was the year 1988, to be precise, when no less an...
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How Did the Babylonian Exile Shape Judaism?
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Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
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“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of times, they weren’t that happy about it. I went to three or four Lollapalooza concerts with my camera when they were there – I busted into things not to supervise them but to take...
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5 Interesting Aspects of Medieval Mongol Culture
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Who Was Michel Foucault? Power, Knowledge, and Legacy
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The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
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Heraclitus against Parmenides
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Who Was Hilma af Klint? 7 Facts About the Pioneer of Abstract Art
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Who Was Margery Kempe? The Medieval Mystic Who Couldn’t Stop Crying
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The Popol Vuh: A Maya Myth Told in Dance and Song
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Highlights From Free Drawing by Franz Čižek & Herman Kastner (1925)
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The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions. Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
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Can Any Good Come From War?
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The Tragedy of the Trenches
TheCollector
Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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History of Hollywood in the 1980s-1990s: Everything You Need to Know
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African History...
A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
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The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
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Emotions: Better Out or In?
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Can Catharsis Help... or Harm?
Classical Wisdom
Io Saturnalia!
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Celebrate the “Best of Days”
TheCollector
Anarchism & Revolution: Who was Mikhail Bakunin?
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Wrong Side of...
The case for a Global Sanctuary City
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What if the Syrians can’t return home?
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The Kiel Mutiny: An Attempt to End WWI?
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Norman Lear’s Collection to Sell at Christie’s
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Art Basel 2024 Opens to the Public: Here Are Some of Its Highlights
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End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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Classical Wisdom
Do You Need Children to Care About the Future?
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Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
Open Culture
The World in a Cloverleaf: A World Map from 1581
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In 1581, the medieval cartographer and Protestant theologian Heinrich Bünting created a symbolic map of the world that adorned his book Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae (Travel Through Holy Scripture). Hand-colored and shaped like a three-leaf clover, the map put Jerusalem at its...
TheCollector
New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs.
Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
History Today Feed
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
10 months ago
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:17
TheCollector
The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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History Today Feed
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:15
TheCollector
Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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Flashbak
Gritty 1980’s NYC and the Glorious Intuition of Richard Sandler
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small...
10 months ago
“Street photography is very difficult. The number of really good pictures that you get is very small in comparison to the number of pictures taken. You’re better off, I think, letting your intuition completely run wild…” – Richard Sandler on his photographs of NYC Richard...
TheCollector
7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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TheCollector
How to Unlock Your Unconscious According to Carl Jung
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Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
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8 months ago
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
History Today Feed
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
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A Widow’s Vengeance in the Wars of Religion
j.hoare
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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TheCollector
The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art
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TheCollector
11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
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Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
TheCollector
Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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Res Obscura
Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
Some lessons from history and archaeology
a year ago
Some lessons from history and archaeology
TheCollector
Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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TheCollector
10 Must-See UNESCO World Heritage Sites in England
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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TheCollector
Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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TheCollector
NY Denny Gallery Shuts Down After Ten Years
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TheCollector
England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
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TheCollector
Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
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Hidden History
The French Space Cat Felicette
France joined the Space Race in the 1950s, and one of her missions was a test flight involving the...
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France joined the Space Race in the 1950s, and one of her missions was a test flight involving the first (and so far only) cat to enter space. It did not end well for the cat. In the aftermath of the Second World War, France, under the leadership of General Charles De Gaulle, was...
History Today Feed
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue
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8 months ago
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look at how the Roman legions were able to overcome the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. We have covered the decisive battles in the story, although...
Global Inequality...
Would Lenin have approved of the IMF?
An indispensable organization
2 months ago
An indispensable organization
TheCollector
Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests
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TheCollector
What Was Voltaire’s Philosophy?
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Open Culture
Coursera Offers $200 Off of Coursera Plus (Until January 27), Giving You Unlimited Access to Courses...
A new deal to start a new year: Coursera is offering a $200 discount on its annual subscription plan...
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A new deal to start a new year: Coursera is offering a $200 discount on its annual subscription plan called “Coursera Plus.” Normally priced at $399, Coursera Plus (now available for $199) gives you access to 90% of Coursera’s courses, Guided Projects, Specializations, and...
TheCollector
Who Were the Axis Powers?
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TheCollector
What Are the Strengths of Determinism?
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TheCollector
Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind
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weird medieval guys
The coolest medieval woman you've never heard of
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
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Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
Trying to Understand...
Out Of Control.
Fear the worst, hope for the best.
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Fear the worst, hope for the best.
TheCollector
Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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TheCollector
The Fowler Museum in L.A. Returns Seven Valuables to Ghana
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TheCollector
Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
The decline and fall of the print media.
11 months ago
The decline and fall of the print media.
TheCollector
10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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Classical Wisdom
The First Biographers
...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
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...and the Surprising Legacy of Ancient Literature
Classical Wisdom
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Mothers of the Ancient World
TheCollector
Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy
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History Today Feed
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
TheCollector
What Are Henri Matisse’s Most Vivid Paintings?
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TheCollector
A Brief History of Collecting Art
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TheCollector
How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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Hundred Rabbits
internet in paradise
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging...
over a year ago
Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef.
Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
TheCollector
Who Was Elena/Eleno de Céspedes?
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TheCollector
The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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TheCollector
Monet’s London Paintings to Reunite After 120 Years
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TheCollector
Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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History Today Feed
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
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The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
TheCollector
Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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Cultural revolution in the land of Kafka and Borges
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On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
Global Inequality...
The end and the beginning of history
Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
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Three ways of thinking about Lea Ypi’s Free
TheCollector
Rare Rediscovered Watercolor by J.M.W. Turner Heads to Auction
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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What Is the Philosophy Behind Zen Gardens?
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Who Was Susan Sontag?
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The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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What is Dialectic? From Heraclitus to Marx
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TheCollector
The Declaration of Independence: History & Overview
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Flashbak
12 Perfect Christmas Gifts From Dianne B, A Postcard Set from 1983
In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a...
2 months ago
In 1983, photographer Peter Hujar (1934–87) created Twelve Perfect Christmas Gifts from Dianne B, a mini-portfolio of 12 postcards. Eight are by Huja, plus four in colour by Neil Winokur and a sleeve by Ken Tisa. The postcards for maverick boutique owner Dianne Benson are lovely...
Flashbak
The Metamorphoses du Jour by JJ Grandville – 1829
Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville...
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Told in 73 coloured lithographs, Les Metamorphoses du Jour (1829) by French artist J.J. Gandville (born Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard; 1803-1847) is a satire on the bourgeois middle class of Parisian society in the Romantic period. Grandville’s characters have a human body and an...
TheCollector
Florida Museum Fires Curator After Issues With Object Provenance
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TheCollector
When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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TheCollector
7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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Dr Alun Withey
The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
over a year ago
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
Overcoming Bias
Beware Value Dashboards
Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering...
3 months ago
Vehicles like cars, planes, and boats generally need a) an engine to push them forward, b) steering to direct their motions, and c) a driver to manage both.
TheCollector
Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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TheCollector
What Were The Pentagon Papers?
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TheCollector
Ancient Town Beneath London’s National Gallery Revealed
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TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Landmarks in Florida
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TheCollector
10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962)
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
a year ago
Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959).
I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html
AND October 1, 2012...
TheCollector
The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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11 months ago
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